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A real educationrecent article in the Sunday Timesstated that Southend-on-Sea was one

of the best British coastal towns in which to live.One of the reasons quoted was the opportunityof a grammar school education. But with morethan two-thirds of the grammar school placesgoing to out-of-towners it would appear thatlocal parents have a better chance of theirchildren receiving that education if they live out-side the borough.

20 years ago the majority of our grammar schoolplaces were allocated to local children; by September 2013 of the 608 places available only184 will be filled by local children. The rest willcommute here from the outside borough. Whyare children travelling to Southend for theireducation from as far afield as Kent, London andColchester?

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I believe the answer to this lies with the creationof academy status for various schools. Theseschools are funded directly by government grantwhich means by definition they are no longer answerable to the local authority. The academystatus is driven by league tables. If local academia cherry-picks star pupils from aroundthe country in order to boost their results it’s notsurprising that their league table performance isimpressive. Why else would we have this huge influx of children from outside the borough atthe expense of our own children’s education?

Once again we appear to have created a monster that is self-serving and does little tobenefit the local community.

In the past Southend-on-Sea always took pridein its education system, with excellent primaryschools preparing our children for grammar orcomprehensive school senior education. Thelocal centres of excellence – our grammarschools – provided senior education for pupilsliving within the Borough.

Our primary schools focussed their efforts on thefact that all children could benefit from a goodsenior education. In fact the primary educationwas so good there were frequent complaintsabout insufficient places being available at ourgrammar schools for local children who hadpassed the 11 plus examination.


We need to ask:a) Are our non-selective schools offering a bet-ter choice of education?

b)Are parents discouraging their children from agrammar school education?

c) Are our primary schools discouraging ourchildren from a grammar school education?

d) Are children from outside Southend-on-Seabeing better educated and prepared than ourpupils?

Our educationists should be planning 5,10,15and 20 years ahead, ensuring that our childrenreceive an education to match the jobopportunities created from the airportexpansion and all ancillary businesses that gowith it. Southend has a golden opportunity toplan and drive itself out of this recession, not driftin the hope that tomorrow will look after itself.

Southend-on-Sea has some of the mostdeprived areas in the country and our ability toalleviate this situation can only come about withdecent housing, education and job creation.Unfortunately residents have seen failure in allthese areas over the last two decades. This has tochange.

Education is at the heart of our future prosperityand I have written this article in the hope that itwill encourage local debate that might lead to achange of policy direction and create bettereducational opportunities for local children.

Councillor Ron Woodley

We know that education is the major contributor to driving out poverty and creatingjob opportunities, both academic and vocationaland this must be balanced with the jobs that arebeing created within the town. Children from ourprimary schools must be given the best educational opportunities and be able to choosewhich senior education system they want toenter.

It is amazing to me that we have drifted so faraway from reality that we have forgotten that themost important thing we have to consider everyday is providing the best education possible forour own children.

This absurd state of affairs has arisen because ofpolitical obsession with league tables. Beingvoted “The best Council” and getting localschools higher up league tables seems to be all-important, but without the inclusion of localresidents children the exercise is vacuous. Whyare we educating children who will take thatknowledge away from Southend for the benefitof another town?

Why are Southend-on-Sea educationists celebrating the increasing popularity of non-selective schools? Are they becoming more popular simply because local children are not entering the grammar schools? In my view localeducationists should only be celebrating whenthey improve the local education standards but,sadly, last year only 45% of Southend children attending non-selective schools achieved 5 goodGCSE grades including English and Maths,against a national average of 59%.

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